There's an additional step you can take to make it look like a regular Wow shortcut if you don't want it getting lost among your other icons on your desktop/start menu lol. This is purely cosmetic as double clicking the .bat will perform the exact same task as this shortcut.

As said before, presumably you're running windows, this is what I do:

1. Open notepad and paste the following (if you want to include the regular npc cache as well feel free to)
If you wish to open the Launcher

4. The wizard will ask you what file you want to set as a destination for your shortcut. Navigate to your "name.bat" notepad file you just made in your Wow folder and name this shortcut whatever you want and click Finish.

You now have a shortcut to the game, as you probably would have already, that performs that npccache code AND looks like wow to boot. I've been using this same method at least since the beginning of Cata when I started going rare crazy and it still works just fine.

Awesome! I was using Task Scheduler to delete the cache folder at log in, but this is a much better solution. The read-only method didn't work for me, so this will be a big time saver. Thanks.

I don't know how you handle your pc, but if you shut it down let's say each night, you also can put a shortcut to this batchfile (without the "@start" part) into your autostart folder. so the cache gets deleted every time your start your pc.

While I might be wrong, that would be impossible due to the way NPCScan detects nearby units. Are you sure you're not confusing it with the option to alert for rares you have already killed?

I believe that is the option I am referring to. I am definitely no UI master, but all I know is that after I turned on this option, I continue to get alerted to the same rare spawns multiple times and I have never wiped my cache. Not sure exactly how it is working, but I see no need to clear my cache.

I've enabled it today so I'll check it out. Personally I want it to alert me every time the NPC is up, regardless of cached results. I am studying at my desk with my headphones on (for noise cancellation). Right now I parked my Hunter at Krol and would like to be alerted each time he spawns (so I can level my Priest with an array of potions).

There is already an option within NPCScan to continue to alarm on rares that are already cached...

There is an option for that but it often overlooks rares you have killed.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. -Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

I've enabled it today so I'll check it out. Personally I want it to alert me every time the NPC is up, regardless of cached results. I am studying at my desk with my headphones on (for noise cancellation). Right now I parked my Hunter at Krol and would like to be alerted each time he spawns (so I can level my Priest with an array of potions).

Yep thats the one.

There is an option for that but it often overlooks rares you have killed.

It has always worked for me. I have killed Snitch multiple times and have always been alerted to his presence despite never clearing my cache.

Well, it didn't work for me on Krol The Blade at least. Turned the option on, reloaded my interface (even though that's not even necessary) and killed Krol so he was cached. Waited for about an hour for his next spawn, which did not alert me.

I'm going to continue using the shortcut that deletes my creature cache then, works fine .

Even after weeks of playing without deleting the cache, in play spread over every continent and most zones, the entire Cache folder is less than 10 MB. It's quite safe to just delete the whole darn thing on a regular basis, you'll never even notice it retrieving things from the server.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. - Sgt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, Battle of Serenity Valley

There's an additional step you can take to make it look like a regular Wow shortcut if you don't want it getting lost among your other icons on your desktop/start menu lol. This is purely cosmetic as double clicking the .bat will perform the exact same task as this shortcut.

As said before, presumably you're running windows, this is what I do:

1. Open notepad and paste the following (if you want to include the regular npc cache as well feel free to)
If you wish to open the Launcher

4. The wizard will ask you what file you want to set as a destination for your shortcut. Navigate to your "name.bat" notepad file you just made in your Wow folder and name this shortcut whatever you want and click Finish.

You now have a shortcut to the game, as you probably would have already, that performs that npccache code AND looks like wow to boot. I've been using this same method at least since the beginning of Cata when I started going rare crazy and it still works just fine.

Works great, but I can't pin this shortcut to my taskbar. ;_;

I hate icons. I don't have any on my desktop; I keep everything I need on my taskbar...but I can't pin this to the taskbar, or even the start menu. Wat do?